there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Weste…

- Ann Bridge

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

- Ann Bridge

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, howe…

- Ann Bridge

America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridicul…

- Ann Bridge

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who c…

- Ann Bridge

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

- Ann Bridge

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept …

- Ann Bridge

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

- Ann Bridge

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education …

- Ann Bridge